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The Susquehanna River and Wilkes-Barre Downtown Wilkes-Barre at night The Stegmaier Federal Building Roth Residence Hall McClintock Hall, built in 1841 According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 7.2 square miles (19 km 2 ), of which 6.8 square miles (18 km 2 ) is land and 0.3 square miles (0.78 km 2 ), or 4.60%, is water.
In 1806, a large portion of the territory broke away from the township to form the borough of Wilkes-Barre. Today, the township of Wilkes-Barre occupies a 1-by-3-mile (1.6 by 4.8 km) strip of land adjacent to the southeast border of what is now the city of Wilkes-Barre. Coal mining was a prominent industry in and around Wilkes-Barre Township in ...
Wilkes-Barre: 6: Catlin Hall, Wilkes College: Catlin Hall, Wilkes College: March 16, 1972 : 92 South River Street: Wilkes-Barre: 7: Central Railroad of New Jersey Station: Central Railroad of New Jersey Station: May 12, 1975 : 31–35 South Baltimore Street
I-476 Toll / Penna Turnpike NE Extension / PA 940 – Wilkes-Barre, Allentown: Exit 95 on I-476 / Turnpike; access to Lake Harmony: Monroe: Blakeslee: 284.00: 457.05: 43: 284: PA 115 – Blakeslee: Access to Wilkes-Barre, Jack Frost–Big Boulder Ski Resort, and Pocono Raceway: Pocono Pines: 293.60: 472.50 – 293: I-380 north – Scranton
PA 29 south (South Cross Valley Expressway) to I-81 – Nanticoke, Wilkes-Barre: Interchange, north end of PA 29 concurrency: Kingston: 182.4: 293.5: PA 309 north (North Cross Valley Expressway) – Luzerne, Dallas: PA 309 exit 5; access to northbound PA 309 and access from southbound PA 309: West Pittston: 188.6: 303.5: PA 92 north (Exeter ...
Placed within the cornerstone was a metal box which contained a Bible, a list of county officials and clerks, a 1905 edition of the Wilkes-Barre Record Almanac, the Smull Legislative Hand Book, copies of local newspapers (Bratstvo, Hazleton Plain Speaker, Hazleton Sentinel, Hazleton Standard, Pittson Gazette, Wilkes-Barre Leader, Wilkes-Barre ...
This section includes Pennsylvania's highest point, Mount Davis, which stands at 3,213 feet (979 m) above sea level. Many of the mountains are long and broad with relatively shallow and broad valleys. Unlike the Appalachian Mountain section, the streams of this area have not cut deep and well defined valleys into the earth.
The River Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.The district includes 215 contributing buildings near downtown in Wilkes-Barre on Franklin St., River St., W. River St., W. Jackson St., W. Union St., W. Market St., W. Northampton St., W. South St., and W. Ross, St., and Barnum Pl. [2] The buildings were built between 1860 ...